(March 31) -- Critics of the Vietnamese government are being subjected to cyber-attacks on the Internet, Google charges.
Just a week after Google shut down its servers in China to protest the country's Internet censorship, the company says it has discovered malicious software designed to silence political dissent in Vietnam.
Google said on its online security blog that it had found software that "broadly targeted Vietnamese computer users around the world," and is specifically designed to target criticism of a government bauxite mine that many Vietnamese activists oppose because of environmental and political concerns. The mining project is partially backed by Chinalco, a state-owned Chinese aluminum company.
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